Guild Wars 2

this is just my personal opinion about balance and build diversity:

1.split pve from pvp/wvw (i pair up pvp with wvw because wvw its a open world pvp mode more than pve) skills and traits,that would avoid some skills and traits beeing weak in pve and to strong in pvp and the other way around also.

2.- make a 1 vs 1 arena mode,would make it easy for the devs to track down skills and trais that are strong ,making 5 vs 5 mode more balanced also
-a 1 vs 1 mode will also help players pvp skills grow and know their limit and not blame their team each time a match goes bad in 5 vs 5
– a 1 vs 1 mode would be more fun because you have to change the traits/weapons/utility for each class you will fight,so you have to know better your class and your enemys class.
-in a 1 vs 1 mode players would learn better what class is their counter making them in 5 vs 5 know in what fight they can go and what fight is better to avoid
-a 1 vs 1 mode would help new players really learn to fight without aoe and condi spam in group fights,they would learn to recognize skills thats hit hard and what is to avoid

thats my 2 cents with my bad engish :P

I wanted this a long time ago. I theorized that balancing 1 vs 1 as well kitten vs 5 would result in the most overall balance. Looking at 5 vs 5 alone may toxic variation like we see with all the condition spamming, healing, and passive/active defenses.

Right now 5 vs 5 balance creates the notion that if a seemingly op build dies in a 1 vs 5 it is not too tank. if a condition build cant take out one in a 1 vs 3-5 then it is balanced. But this of course simply isn’t true. 1 vs 1 and 5 vs 5 balance would help spvp allot.

1) This would be too confusing for new players and not worth trying in a f2p game.

2) Balancing a 5vs5 mode based on 1vs1 would be terrible in this game. People in 1vs1 lobbies are still crying about druids and trapper dragonhunters being ‘too strong’, what does that tell you?